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MEANS FOR s3 GGGGGGGGGG s. No. 879,230. V Patented Mar. 13, 1888.

Nrrnn STATE ATENT JAMES W. KINOAID, OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EMZY TAYLOR, OF SAME PLACE.

MEANS FOR SECURING CORKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,230, dated March 13, 1888.

Application filed December 23, 1887. Serial No. 25$,t50. (Nu model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1. JAMES W. KINOAID, a citizen of the United States of America. residing at Georgetown, in the county of \V1lliamson and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Securing Corks, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention pertains to an improvement in means for securing corks in bottles, flasks, and jugs, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Fign re 1 is a side elevation embodying my improvement, and Fig. 2 is a view taken at right angles to Fig. 1.

, My invention is designed to simplify the means and eheapen the expense of securing corks in bottles, flasks,jugs, 850.; and in accomplishing this purpose I provide the neck of the bottle, jug, or other corked receptacle with two corresponding and horizontallyaligned oritices, a, formed in the neck of the bottle, through which I project a suitable wire and then twist the strands tightly upon the top of the cork first forced into the bottle in the ordinary manner.

By means of my invention a cork is readily and securely held in position and is not liable to be accidentally deranged.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is- The herein described means for securing corks in bottles, consisting of a wire strand passed through coincident apertures of the neck of the bottle and twisted on the top of the cork, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES XV. KINGAID.

\Vitnesses:

ROBT. A. JOHN, J. W. Honens. 

